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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even openin...more

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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't ...more

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me wi...more